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7 present of plastic in the u? sis recycled .

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TGIF!!!!!!!!!!

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Did you know that 7 billion pounds of non recycled plastic is recreated every year and that garbage filled islands will most likely double in size in the next ten years according to Charles Moore ( scientist )?!?!?!?!?!

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Aman, so true, we should do something about it!!!

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The Pacific garbage patch is about 9 feet deep and weighs about 7 million tons. Also 7 billion pounds of non recyclable plastic is created each year.

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We use 2 Million beverage bottles per year. Most of those end up in oceans, seas, and other body's of water.

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"Garbage island will likely double in size in the next ten years if we don't stop dumping litter in the ocean especially plastic. 10% of 100 million Tons of plastic produced every year ends up in our beloved ocean and it harms our sea life. In fact estimated 100s of leather back turtles die because they swallow plastic trash.

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The great pacific ca be consider as pacific trash.

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When plastic breaks down in the cold ocean water it releases chemical that kill off sea life

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The amount of garbage at garbage patch will double in ten years

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Photodegrading doesn't make plastic completely disappear, it only breaks the plastic down into smaller and smaller peices.

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Only 7% of U.S. plastic is recycled.

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100s of millions of nurdles are spilled in the ocean every year.

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The 4 currents create a massive 7.7 million square miles of a spinning vortex of garbage

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With all of the plastic that is being dragged down into the garbage patch, more and more creatures are dieing from plastic. Creatures are swallowing things like toys, hair combs and other small pieces of plastic.(national geographic). The Pacific Garbage Patch is bigger than two Texas's , WOW!!! ( ECOlife). 7 billion pounds of non recycleable plastic is made each year. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the largest public dump. There is almost 500 tones of trash is thrown into the dump. ( garbage patch.net.)

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We can solve this problem by making biodegradable plastic.

Just imagine a plastic that can biodegrade so even if you drop it in the ocean it will biodegrade before fish can eat it

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An ocean gyre is a system of circular ocean currents formed by Earth's wind patterns and the forces created by the rotation of the planet.

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About 9% of garbage patch fish are full of garbage or plastic.

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Scientists found 9% of the plastic in the garbage patch in living animals. They also say the patch will most likely double it's size in the next ten years.

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10% of plastic produced worldwide will end up in the sea

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris that spans water from the west coast of North America to Japan. It is ran by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Racing boat captain Charles Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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About two thousand turtles die each year from getting caught in these plastic vortexes :.(

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The 700 million ton Great Garbage patch contains about 80% plastic from land based activities. The other 20% of it comes from boats and oil leeks.

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About 2000 sea turtles die each year from getting caught in these trash vortexes :.(

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70% of all marine trash sinks to the bottom of the ocean, leaving only 30% to be the trash the floats around.

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Great pacific garbage patch is also known as the underwater trash heap

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Different things that cause the Garbage Patch is global influence, sources, city litter, beach visitors, and different industry's.

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According to scientists, the garbage patches will double their size in the next ten years. This not only means that we have more waste in the oceans, but nerdles are also there so there is probably more garbage there then what meets the eye.